Johann Baptist Pflug (13 February 1785,

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- 30 May 1866, Biberach an der Riß) was a German

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painter.

Life

At the age of twelve, after attending the local elementary school, he became a

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at the local monastery where he continued his education and received his first drawing lessons. When the monastery closed, the fathers recommended that he become a church painter. Johann Franz Schefold (1750-1828), a lawyer whose father was a church painter, acted as a sort of patron to Pflug, allowing him access to his library and gallery. In 1806, he went to the Academy of Fine Arts Munich where he studied under

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, whose instruction consisted largely of having him make copies of the

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. At the outbreak of the

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, he returned to Biberach where he passed an art examination and became a teacher at the newly created Biberach Gymnasium, a post he held until 1856. Beginning in 1813, his painting focused largely on genre scenes and costume pictures of soldiers or robbers. From 1825 to 1830, he published a series of colored engravings entitled "Rural doings in Württemberg" (Ländliche Gebräuche in Württemberg), which established his popularity throughout Germany. As a teacher, he discovered and promoted many young artists who would come to be called "The Biberach School". These included Eberhard Emminger and

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. Taken together with his Memoirs (published in 1874), his works offer an almost complete representation of daily life in Nineteenth-century Germany and have great historical value, beyond their artistic merits.

Selected works

* ''Lagerszene bei Bergerhausen oberhalb Biberbach: Österreichische Kavallerie und Infanterie, ein Geschütz im Mittelgrund, im Hintergrund Zelte und Train, Oktober 1815'' (Camp Scene at Bergerhausen), 1826,

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, Vienna. * ''Die Waldburg mit Blick auf den Bodensee'' (

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Overlooking the

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), c.1836,

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, Biberach an der Riß * ''Die Gefangennahme der Räuber (Rosenbergerbande)'' (Capturing the Robbers), 1822,

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, private collection

Writings

* ''Aus der Räuber- und Franzosenzeit Schwabens. Die Erinnerungen des schwäbischen Malers aus den Jahren 1780-1840.'' (Memoirs) Reissued by Max Zengerle. Weißenhorn: Anton H. Konrad Verlag, 1974,

References

External links

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Works by Pflug @ Arcadja.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pflug, Johann Baptist 1785 births 1866 deaths People from Biberach an der Riss 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters German genre painters Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni

Life

Selected works

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